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Yesterday was my first real SIG on my own. My co-chair Guy Mortenson couldn't make it and the agenda was wholly organised by me. So I ...

In her engaging UKOUG presentation on being a newbie Lisa Dobson devoted a large chunk of time to Being A Good Newbie. That is, how to pos...

Yesterday I decided to do a bit of work at home, as I wanted to do some data modelling (documentation, documenation, doncha just luv it?) an...

I decided to give XE one last try on Windows before turning to VM Ware. So I uninstalled XE using the MSI program. This did a stand-up job...

Earlier this month Pete Finnegan wondered whether we will get security patches for XE. Mark Townsend has now posted on the OTN XE Forum ...

A posting on the XE forum observes that "By far the best known Wiki is Wikipedia " . Almost certainly true but how very depress...

Mike Townsend on the XE forum said that the ORA-12557 error indicated an Oracle Home variable pointing at the wrong set of DLLs. After some...

The world is divided into two groups of people: those for whom installing Oracle Express edition has been a piece of cake and those for whom...

Walking along the canals of Birmingham on Sunday I was struck by how not like San Francisco it was. Not just the colour of the sky but the ...

So Niall Litchfield’s aside about Sandra Momali’s taste for Agile development has kicked off a bit of a debate . I thought I’d throw in m...

Lucas Jellema has just posted a technique for incorporating TODO tags in PL/SQL codes. This was a spooky piece of synchronicity because I...

Jakob "Usability" Nielsen has just published an Alertbox on blogging . It's depressing to discover that this blog fails at l...

Tony Blair describes the arguments in favour of his new anti-terrorist legislation as, "compelling". This is because if you disag...

In his latest article Joel Spolsky describes a workshop to prioritise features for the next version of his FogBugz software package. Like ...

A while back someone posted a pertinent question on the OTN DB forum, Is it Worth to be DBA? . The poster was in their last year of college...

Jakob Neilsen's latest Alertbox draws our attention to the iminent redesign of the MS Office user interface. Not the least of the woes...

Laurent Schneider recently posted on his bad Metalink experiences . Let me show you my scars... My first stand-out bad experience was an ...

It's oh so nice to go travellin' But it's so much nicer, yes it's so much nicer to come home Sinatra sang that. Going to Op...

Boy these are long days. I seem to be getting more jetlagged not less. Anyway, did you get to see Larry? At 1:00pm the queue literally str...

At the bloggers dinner last night Mark Rittman was commenting on the breakfasts provided in the conference centre. They are called "co...